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Best of World Rally Championships 2025 | The Best Rally Crashes, The Best Action and All With Raw Sound!

Here’s another best of the best in 2025 video, and this one is another from the 2025 World Rally Championship. We shared the top major crashes video the other day, but this one is a much bigger...

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The Mangled Mercury Project: This Barn Find 1939 Mercury Has Gone From Forgotten To Incredible Hot Rod! Watch The Whole Build In 30 Minutes!

The Mangled Mercury project from Iron Trap Garage has been a really fun project to watch come together. Starting out as what seemed like a simple chop top Mercury build, it has gone into full custom...

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FIRST LOOK – David Spade’s 1978 Ford⁩ F250 Ranger XLT – BARRETT-JACKSON 2026 SCOTTSDALE AUCTION

David Spade is a hell of a car guy and has bought and sold many cars at Barrett-Jackson, but this one might be his biggest. In size that is. This dentside 1978 Ford F250 Ranger XLT is something...

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Steve Magnante Isn’t Slowing Down Any! Check Out This RARE TUXEDO BLACK 4-SPEED ROAD RUNNER He Found In The Snow!

We’re so glad to see Steve back out in the wild, hunting hot rods and muscle cars in the wrecking yard, and sharing all his muscle car knowledge with us.He’s as hard core as they come,...

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World Rally Championship Video Series: More Than Machine, Season 2 Episode 3 – Vanishing Point | 2025 Rally Islas Canarias & Rally Italia Sardegna

If you haven’t seen the WRC documentary series More Than Machine, and you are a rally racing fan, you are going to want to check out the entire first season at the link below. With behind the...

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Dylan McCool’s Project Car Updates! Monaco Body Swap, ’58 Plymouth, W200, Cobra II, Charger, and MANY MORE!

To wrap up 2025, Dylan McCool sat down to give everyone an update on his current projects and some of what to expect in 2026. If you are a fan of all the cool stuff he has going on, then check out...

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Vote Now!: Ridetech’s T-Shirt Design contest voting is on!

A few weeks ago the boys and girls at Ridetech announced they were doing a T-Shirt design contest. With fame and fortune on the line, the competition was fierce, but Ridetech has narrowed it down to...

Goliath Video Update: 2010 Edition

We acquired Goliath, our now familiar 1966 C50 truck in November of 2009. In December, we posted an introductory video of the truck and took you along for a little ride. That was when the motor was...

Loring Timing Association Announces 2011 Event Date

Limestone, Maine will once again become the fastest place in America for one weekend in 2011. The Loring Timing Association has announced that their 2011 event will be held on July 15-17, 2011. This...

Crazy Hot Rod Boat/Submarine Thing: The Seabreacher

This could be the craziest watercraft we’ve ever seen. It is called the Seabreacher and it is essentially a mechanical dolphin. Capable of flying over the surface of the water or gliding up to...

EcoBoost Video: The New Twin-Turbo F-150 Hauls Ass!

We’ve been wondering what kinds of performance buyers could expect from the new EcoBoost V6 powered F-150. All the stats seemed pretty impressive. With 365hp and 420 lb/ft of torque, the math...

Book Review: The Formula One Technical Analysis 2009/2010 Season

Formula One racing is recognized as the most advanced form of racing in the world. The amount of technology packed into the cars on the track rivals and sometimes exceeds the stuff found in the space...

The Parting Shift: Ronnie Friggin’ Sox

We’ll jump right to it and tell you that if you’re in a hurry, skip to the last 30 seconds or so of this week’s Parting Shift video to see and hear why Ronnie Sox was called...

The BangShift Christmas Wish List: Arias Hemi Heads for LS Engines

We’re channeling our inner child for this wish list pick. Why? Because when you’re a kid there’s little regard for the usefulness or practicality of that thing you want to see under...

Cool Read: A Small Crankshaft Company Calls California Home

We rightfully bemoan the loss of manufacturing here in the US with some regularity. Because of that, when we see a story about a small company, especially one that makes high performance and racing...

Incredible Vintage Nitro Photos From NY International Raceway in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s

Man alive is this cool! We were tipped off to an amazing collection of nearly 400 photos taken at the long dead NY National Speedway in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They all seem to have been...

Auto Trader Classics Find: The Bushwacker AA/FD

Old school AA/Fuel Dragsters tend to fall in one of a couple categories.There are the raw dragsters that feature little to no body work aside from a cowl, the bizarro cars that feature odd engines or...

Killer Video: Bigfoot 1 Gets Thrashed in Take This Job and Shove It

It seems bizarre to say out loud, but the 1981 move Take This Job and Shove It was a significant event in the history of monster trucks. It was in the truck race scene of that film that Bigfoot One...

Cool Video: Old School Monster Trucks Crushing, Bogging…and Floating!

The modern day monster truck is a true marvel of engineering. They leap and fly like no other vehicles of their size and weight on Earth. Their engines and chassis technology allow them to launch...

BangShift Christmas Wish List: We Want the new 720hp LSX454R

Yeah, yeah, we asked for a 2012 Cobra Jet the other day, but our brand allegiances are pretty weak around here. We have love for pretty much all of ’em, especially when 720hp are involved. GM...